Figurative Language

Metaphor- states a fact or draws a verbal picture by the

use of comparison.“Ann is a walking encyclopedia.”

MetaphorsDevin is a clown.

John’s head is a computer.Jealousy is a green eyed monster.

Imagery – when the author uses the 5 senses to describe

something.Sight Touch or feel

Smell Hear

Taste

Examples of Imagery

As Hurricane Sandy approaches the shoreline, people can feel the wind, taste the salt from the wild waves, and hear the surf pounding on the

ocean floor like a huge drum.

Onomatopoeia- words that sound like what they mean.

Ex: When the cars collided, all you could hear was “Pow” and “Bang”.

Onomatopoeia

Sizzle choo chooPop clank

Bubble clinkScreech sigh

Simile- uses the words “like” or “as” to compare one object or idea with another Example: “as bright as the sun”

EXAMPLES OF SIMILES

As busy as a bee.As Dry as a bone.

As quiet as a mouse.As strong as an ox.

Moves Like a snail.Cry like a baby.Run like a deer.

I am hungry as a horse.

                                                       

You run like a rabbit.

                                                                                                                                           

He is sneaky as a snake.

“I Love the Look of Words”Popcorn leaps, popping from the floor of a hot black skilletand into my mouth.Black words leap,snapping from the whitepage. Rushing into my eyes. Sliding into my brain which gobbles themthe way my tongue and teethchomp the buttered popcorn.

When I have stopped reading,ideas from the words stay stuckin my mind, like the sweetsmell of butter perfuming myfingers long after the popcornis finished.I love the book and the look of words the weight of ideas that popped into my mindI love the tracksof new thinking in my mind.

o Maya Angelou

                                               

Chug chug chug!!

Swish swish swish

Yeeeeee Ahhhhhhhh

Glippp Gluppp Gluppp

                                                            

The flowers danced in the wind.

The Earth coughed and choked in all of the pollution.

The friendly gates welcomed us.

Hyperbole

0An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect. It is not used to mislead the reader, but to emphasize a point. Example: She’s said so on several

million occasions.

Idioms0An idiom or idiomatic expression refers to a

construction or expression in one language that cannot be matched or directly translated word-for-word in another language.

Example: "She has a bee in her bonnet," meaning "she is obsessed," cannot be literally translated into another language word for word.

                                                            

Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday.

Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmy’s on Tuesday.